On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:34:23PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
> I've got my system running in XDirectFB (I built XF4.3 with the patches)
> and everyoe says I need to use META+ALT and my mouse to change a
> window's opacity. However, I used xev to set my windows key to Meta_L (I
> double checked this) and still pressing the windows key, alt and doing
> anything with my mouse does nothing. What am I missing this time? ;)

I think there was a miscommunication. To change the opacity, you must
either:

a) Hold down EITHER the Windows key and alt, or caps lock and alt, and
move the mouse left and right, while a window is focused. Moving it left
makes it more transparent; moving it right makes it more opaque. This
technique is useful for people without a scroll wheel mouse.

As far as I can tell, it shouldn't matter what your windows and alt keys are
mapped to... the software that takes care of the windows+alt (or caps+alt)
behavior is part of DirectFB itself and not the X server, thus any X
mechanism to set key bindings (e.g. xkb, xmodmap) do not enter into the
equation.

b) Hold down either the Windows key or caps lock, while scrolling the scroll
wheel, if you have one.

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